Teenagers

1. Which of the following inferences is best supported by the second stanza

(lines 6-8)?

• A. The speaker of the poem used to work as an English teacher.

• B. The speaker’s children are whispering so that their parents can’t hear them.

• C. The speaker of the poem is beginning to lose her memory.

• D. The speaker’s teenage children are learning another language at school.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

2. The word code in the following passage most closely refers to fill in the blank__________

• A. a password or PIN number

• B. a way of communicating

• C. a set of rules or ethics

• D. instructions for a computer or program

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CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

3. Lines 9-14 of the poem mainly suggest that fill in the blank__________

• A. the speaker’s children are well over six feet tall

• B. the speaker doesn’t even recognize the children now that they are grown

• C. the speaker is amazed at how the children have grown into adults

• D. the children look nothing like they did when they were younger

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

4. Which passage from the poem most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 3?

• A. “Years later the door opens”

• B. “I see faces I once held, / open as sunflowers in my hands”

• C. “I see / familiar skin now stretched on long bodies”

• D. “that move past me glowing almost like pearls”

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CCSS.RL.6.1

Based on these lines, what can the reader infer?

• A. The teenagers do not interact with their parents.

• B. The speaker used to be a teenager.

• C. The speaker sees the children she remembers now fully grown.

• D. The narrator is amazed and deeply impacted by how her children have grown.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

Based on this line, what can the reader infer?

• A. The speaker used to be a teenager.

• B. The teenagers do not interact with their parents.

• C. The narrator is amazed and deeply impacted by how her children have grown.

• D. The speaker sees the children she remembers now fully grown.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

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Based on these lines, what can the reader infer?

• A. The speaker sees the children she remembers now fully grown.

• B. The narrator is amazed and deeply impacted by how her children have grown.

• C. The teenagers do not interact with their parents.

• D. The speaker used to be a teenager.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

Based on these lines, what can the reader infer?

• A. The teenagers do not interact with their parents.

• B. The speaker used to be a teenager.

• C. The speaker sees the children she remembers now fully grown.

• D. The narrator is amazed and deeply impacted by how her children have grown.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4